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A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While the defendant in this case hasn’t yet been named publicly, the NetWire website has been leaking information about the likely true identity and location of its owner for the past 11 years.

Prometei botnet continued its activity since Cisco Talos first reported about it in 2020. Since November 2022, we have observed Prometei improving the infrastructure components and capabilities.

Phishing, the theft of users' credentials or sensitive data using social engineering, has been a significant threat since the early days of the internet – and continues to plague organizations today, accounting for more than 30% of all known breaches. And with the mass migration to remote working during the pandemic, hackers have ramped up their efforts to steal login credentials as they take

Iranian state-sponsored actors are continuing to engage in social engineering campaigns targeting researchers by impersonating a U.S. think tank. "Notably the targets in this instance were all women who are actively involved in political affairs and human rights in the Middle East region," Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The cybersecurity

The infamous cryptocurrency miner group called 8220 Gang has been observed using a new crypter called ScrubCrypt to carry out cryptojacking operations. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, the attack chain commences with successful exploitation of susceptible Oracle WebLogic servers to download a PowerShell script that contains ScrubCrypt. Crypters are a type of software that can encrypt,

Confidential computing will revolutionize cloud security in the decade to come and has become a top C-level priority for industry leaders such as Google, Intel and Microsoft. Edgeless Systems is leading these advancements to ensure all data is always encrypted.

An arbitrary file upload vulnerability in Poly Trio 8800 7.2.2.1094 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ringtone file.

By Deeba Ahmed Security firm ESET’s cybersecurity researchers have shared their analysis of the world’s first UEFI bootkit being used in… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BlackLotus UEFI bootkit Can Bypass Secure Boot on Windows

By Deeba Ahmed Currently, scammers are using DBatLoader malware loader to distribute Remcos RAT to businesses and institutions across Eastern Europe. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Phishing Attack Uses UAC Bypass to Drop Remcos RAT Malware